Piles of things congregateOn stools, on chairs, on tables,Except where she sitsThere is a spaceThere where she knitsAnd shares her sugar-free ice creamWith the ruffled-up cat.Her hands are the same as they’ve beenFor the thirty years I’ve known her,Yarn moving through them,Her fingers like living shuttlesWhile her mouth curls in, up,Opens as stories edge out,Weft by weft,Grandma is leftAnd she tells me as much as I want to knowHer fingers never slow.And I imagine her mind sorting throughThe millions of blankets, and booties,Sweater-sleeves, shawls,Socks, slippers, mittens, warmers too many to remember,In her mind they pile and congregate,On stools, on chairs, on tablesFor children long since grown,Friends, neighbors, grandchildren returning homeTo ask her a million questions,Tonight she pulls out those memories and unfolds them,In heaps, they surround us except where she sits,She moves from pile to pile as she knitsPulling out the whys and whens by the sleeves,Showing me collars she buried years ago,Lace doilies that have gone yellow with timeShe packs them back with affection,Delicately she leaves them in that place in her mind,And tells meThat this one in her hands,It will be the most special.

You enter the room in catastrophic heels,And I know it from the first time you swing that little clutch purseThat You are the One. Everyone stops.The small revolver on the inside of your thigh shifts. He looks up, pauses, twists the corner of his mouth into a smirk,As if to say, “Well isn’t this my lucky day?”Long-legged, long-haired,With Eyelashes that weep like willowsAnd a jaw that catches the moonlight like the bow of Artemis herself,I would probably hate 007 if it weren’t for you;With your quick wit, fast lips and perplexing duplicity.You are too sassy, too smart, too sexy to be allowed.Gun-toting, soft-stepping, with just the right amount of fur on his chest,Who does he think he is?The suffering, smoldering hero--I want you to turn his eyes to gooLike you always do, Bond Girl,Because I could never love a man who didn’t love a woman like you, Bond Girl,He wants you even though you’ll try to kill him somedayHe’ll take you now and dispose of you later, and that’s okayBecause he’ll regret it forever.He’ll remember you as beautiful, smart, flexible.How you understood his complex conscience,His ascetic but precise needs.He would have given it all up, and you both know it,Maybe you even talked about it--When you are dead, he’ll remember how he danced on the edge of your plunging neckline,And almost fell head-first into a domestic family sitcom,No, he’ll shake his head, the show must go on…He’ll miss you. We all will.But its your own fault, and we all know it.You should have shot that bastard.You should have aimed to kill.

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